Nickel Theatre
99 Union Street,
Bangor,
ME
04401
99 Union Street,
Bangor,
ME
04401
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This theater showed films and hosted vaudeville acts in the early part of the twentieth century. Admission was five cents, as you may have guessed.
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Ken McIntyre
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The Nickel Theater opened in 1907 as a moving picture theater. It was located on Union Street.
According to the caption on this photo, the Nickel was also called the Olympia and, unflatteringly, the Rathole. I’m guessing that the latter was not an authorized name for the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/2dprgo
Address was 99 Union St
I found a 2009 Bangor Daily News Article that talked a lot about the old theaters around the Bangor Area and it mentioned the Nickel Theater being close by another theater the Gaiety which was in Norombega Hall.
It mentioned that the old owner of the Nickel theater was owned by the Keiths and offered Vaudville acts.
The Nickel theater had sold it’s millionth ticket in December.
Thats all I have to say but here’s a link to the full BDN article.
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/97460.html
NIce artical kirky.
The caption of this 1911 photo from Maine Memory contradicts some of the information about this theater from other sources. It says that the Nickle Theatre was located in the Graham Building, which was on Central Street. The article Kirky linked to also says that the Nickle was on Central Street.
As early nickelodeons were sometimes peripatetic, perhaps the house moved from Union Street to Central Street (or vice-versa) at some time in its brief career. Perhaps it moved to the Union Street location after the Graham Building was destroyed by the fire of 1911.
This house might have been called the Olympia Theatre after was called the Nickle. Another page in the book from which ken mc’s linked photo came says that the Olympia burned down in 1963, though by that time the building had long since been converted to retail use.